Rockwell Automation to Build New Greenfield Manufacturing Site in Southeastern Wisconsin
I visited Automation Fair, Rockwell Automation’s annual customer showcase gathering, Tuesday. We had six briefings and a gathering to discuss the new ControlLogix 5590 platform. This year’s event felt both similar to past years (this was my 29th) and also a bit...
Asset Data Interoperability Ecosystem
We met in a conference room at an office in Barrington, IL. A place where sometime later a couple guys thought they’d screw me in a business deal. I came out ahead in the end, but the place has mixed memories. This meeting involved thinking about the future of asset...
New Aras CEO Interviewed
Aras, a PLM developer, appointed a new CEO a couple months ago (see Aras Appoints Leon Lauritsen as Chief Executive Officer). Our schedules finally coalesced for a conversation. I’ve been invited to two Aras community events over the past two years. Prior to that, my...
TPG to Acquire PTC’s Industrial Connectivity and IoT Businesses
I’ve had the opportunity to talk with many CEOs and SVPs following acquisitions that, to me, seemed out of place. Perhaps a distraction to core business. Perhaps just an ego play to build a larger business/division. Two ranking executives told me that the acquired...
Rockwell Automation Introduces SecureOT Solution Suite
Rockwell Automation has upgraded its cybersecurity offering for operations technology (OT) applications. Executives touted how Rockwell’s roots in operations roots its cybersecurity offering more naturally in the plant than IT-oriented solutions overlaid at a recent...
ZEDEDA Launches Edge Kubernetes App Flows
Industrial IT developers increasingly incorporate standard IT infrastructure. Rather than send platitudes about the mythical “IT/OT Convergence,” some actually just do it. Integration with Kubernetes exemplifies one such technology. This news comes from edge...
Unified Locating as a Key To “Physical AI”
I’m betting that you know where you are in terms of physical location. They once asked on TV ads, “Do you know where your kids are?” Now the questions are, “Do you know where your machines are?” and “Do your machines know where they are?” OPC Foundation continues its...
Pepperl+Fuchs Supports the Digitalization of the Process Industry
This is the weirdest press release I’ve received in a while. It appears that Pepperl + Fuchs needed to remind people it is still in the game. The company hasn’t updated me in years. I’ve known it mostly as a sensor manufacturer. This update concerns mobile...
First Autonomous Mobile Robots Roll Off the Line at Rockwell Automation’s Milwaukee Headquarters
Rockwell Automation’s evolution during the past five or more years has been instructive of the direction of American industry. Rockwell has been acquiring some interesting companies, one of which was Clearpath Robotics. This release bows to the current climate of...
Yokogawa Acquires Intellisync and WiSNAM, Strengthening Cybersecurity and Grid Management Solutions
More acquisitions in the market. Another cybersecurity company acquired. This one by Yokogawa. A lot of consolidation in the cybersecurity market. Among other things, Yokogawa cites this acquisition as creating a Digital Hub for Renewable Energy and Decarbonization....
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